Did Paragon City Ban any cars made after 2013 or so?

[Zep]

Out of nostalgia I suppose.

 

Flying around Peregrine working on a 1/2 bar to level they all looked old tonight. 

[Major_Decoy]

It's not that, it's just that the Sky Raiders and Freakshow steal any car with electronics more advanced than a radio. That's also why none of the cars in Paragon have air conditioning (every freakshow tank has built-in HVAC)

[ranagrande]

Why would you want to spend so much money on a new car when it's just going to get blown up in a mayhem mission anyway?

[Snarky]

have you seen the computers with the CRT monitors?  or a thousand other details?  

 

Paragon, the Rogue Isles, Praetoria... It is all locked in a time bubble.  I do not think the Menders in ouro did it.  Maybe they are aware of it to some extent.  But there are greater powers who can manipulate time and space.  They have chosen to encapsulate the tangled mess of the timestream.  Probably due to the inter planar war and perhaps the Menders non stop fiddling.  Oh, and hundreds of thousands of heroes and villains bopping back and forth through time.

 

 

[Mjolnerd]

It's like how Gotham City is both a 1930s noir setting with police blimps and everyone dressed like they're headed to a speakeasy, and a modern metropolis (not that one) with maglev trains and 5G cell coverage.

[twozerofoxtrot]

The entire auto industry was converted to making and maintaining war walls

[Scarlet Shocker]

fun fact: All the cars in Paragon are pedal powered. There are no filling stations there. And you can't drive to Pocket D

[Snarky]

1 hour ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

fun fact: All the cars in Paragon are pedal powered. There are no filling stations there. And you can't drive to Pocket D

If you cant drive to pocket D why are there trucks in it?

[Scarlet Shocker]

3 minutes ago, Snarky said:

If you cant drive to pocket D why are there trucks in it?

 

 

Illusion trollers!

[Go0gleplex]

They use the ugliest possible models as well since insurance companies refuse to provide coverage due to the frequency in which vandals and clockwork destroy them throughout the city. 

[Skyhawke]

2 hours ago, Go0gleplex said:

They use the ugliest possible models as well since insurance companies refuse to provide coverage due to the frequency in which vandals and clockwork destroy them throughout the city. 

 

City of Beater Cars. I'd play it.

[Sir Myshkin]

It works for Cuba.

[Clave Dark 5]

These cars don't look like they even made it past 1980, these are all 70s boats for the most part.

[lemming]

15 hours ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

fun fact: All the cars in Paragon are pedal powered. There are no filling stations there. And you can't drive to Pocket D

It's true.  Manny's is just an empty shell, no wonder it's boarded up.

[Sanguinesun]

On 6/1/2023 at 1:13 PM, Zep said:

Out of nostalgia I suppose.

 

Flying around Peregrine working on a 1/2 bar to level they all looked old tonight. 

 

Times have been tough in Paragon and across the planet in the aftermath of what happened with the rikti. Place isnt exactly thriving.

 

 

[Techwright]

My guess is that they're likely parked on some salt flat somewhere still waiting on the cars' computer chips. 

 

On 6/1/2023 at 9:25 PM, Clave Dark 5 said:

These cars don't look like they even made it past 1980, these are all 70s boats for the most part.

 

What's wrong with the 1970s? Cars, I mean. Let's not discuss the rest.  

 

My former 1979 Chrysler New Yorker drove like a dream.  It was a great car if you overlooked the lack of more elegant aerodynamic designs and it's tendancy to drink gasoline like...uh...whatever drinks gasoline.

[Go0gleplex]

On 6/1/2023 at 6:25 PM, Clave Dark 5 said:

These cars don't look like they even made it past 1980, these are all 70s boats for the most part.

Definitely!  Some of the semi's I've seen remind me of the LTI trucks (shipping company my gramps worked for in the 60's-70's)  The rest of 'em seem right out of the 50's era give or take a few years. Those 70's boats are the rich folks' rides. 😄 

 

OH! There's an idea!  We can replace the motors in those gas guzzlers with electric ones and then plug in one of the 'lectric freaks to power it as a reform program! 😜

[wjrasmussen]

On 6/1/2023 at 2:30 AM, twozerofoxtrot said:

The entire auto industry was converted to making and maintaining war walls

And purses for Atlas Park.

[Clave Dark 5]

12 hours ago, Techwright said:

What's wrong with the 1970s? Cars, I mean. Let's not discuss the rest. 

Nothing!  Friend of mine back in the 80s had some model of I think 70s Caddy that was at the time still, the longest car manufactured in the US.  It was a boat and a half, but was really comfy.  Terrible gas mileage though.

[BjorJlen]

Cars?

   What about the BUSSES? Has anyone, and I mean anyone, seen a bus driving around anywhere, stopping at the bus stops at all to pick up anyone? Nope, not I. Heck, I would love to see anyone in the city standing at a bus stop alone lol. It's almost like I can hear the discussion in my poor head from the powers that be about bussing around in Paragon City...

 

Person 1: "Finally, we have lots of bus stops for our happy citizens to get around our awesome city! Public transportation at its finest. Now let's get busy on making busses! Wait... what? We have a public rail system??? Oh hell! There goes that idea. Hey pete, tell the factories to stop preparing to make busses! Yeah, I know... it's a pain in the butt! Someone should have told us before we took the time, and money, to make all of these bus stops, which are totally useless now. Oh well, onto the next item on the agenda... Airports! So, you know, our fine citizens can actually leave the city and travel abroad. Wait... what???" 😲

 

   Nuff said...

[High_Beam]

On 6/1/2023 at 5:18 AM, Mjolnerd said:

It's like how Gotham City is both a 1930s noir setting with police blimps and everyone dressed like they're headed to a speakeasy, and a modern metropolis (not that one) with maglev trains and 5G cell coverage.

Or the Fallout franchise.  Its one of the reasons I love the world that is Paragon City.

[Communistpenguin]

I bet that no one in paragon actually owns cars. Everyone just belongs to a ride-share that can buy cheap cars at a low price due to volume sales.

[gamingglen]

They all have chrome bumpers. When was the last time cars were made with chrome bumpers en masse? 

 

I had a 1974 Z28 Camaro (automatic 😞 ) with chrome bumpers. 

[gamingglen]

16 hours ago, Go0gleplex said:

Definitely!  Some of the semi's I've seen remind me of the LTI trucks (shipping company my gramps worked for in the 60's-70's) ...

 

Notice the license plates have NAD?  It does not mean "Not A Decepticon", despite what some rumors say.  😉  

[Techwright]

7 hours ago, BjorJlen said:

 

   What about the BUSSES? Has anyone, and I mean anyone, seen a bus driving around anywhere, stopping at the bus stops at all to pick up anyone? Nope, not I. Heck, I would love to see anyone in the city standing at a bus stop alone

 

 

I think you answered your own question.  Just try being an ordinary citizen standing alone at a bus stop for 15-20 minutes in this city.

 

(Actually, that might make an interesting mini-game.  Play an ordinary citizen, see how long you last through a set of daily routine instructions:  wait at the bus stop, walk to lunch, survive an attack in your office, etc.)